Why this ride
From Lyss it runs 88 km to Lyss; allow about 1 h 41 of riding. The stops in between: Vingelz / Hafen, Strandboden and back through Vingelz / Hafen.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Lobsigensee and Strandboden
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 88 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 41
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Grand Tour of Switzerland
21 km on Grand Tour of Switzerland.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 21 km
- Named road
- Grand Tour of Switzerland
Grand Tour of Switzerland
For about 23 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 23 km
- Named road
- Grand Tour of Switzerland
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Lobsigensee
Lobsigensee is a tiny lake, barely more than a pond, hidden among fields and woods on a low hill above Aarberg in the Bernese Seeland. It is a nature reserve, ringed with reeds and alder trees, and it is home to frogs, newts, dragonflies and birds. It also hides one of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps World Heritage sites: the remains of Neolithic settlements along its shore. There is nothing visible on the surface, but the quiet, green setting gives a sense of what the landscape might have looked like thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Lobsigensee write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Lobsigensee is where the day begins. Next is Vingelz / Hafen.
2. Vingelz / Hafen
Biel and Bienne are the same city, one name in German and one in French, and street signs, conversations and even jokes switch between the two languages without anyone noticing. At its western edge, the lakeside district of Vingelz, with its small harbour, has given archaeologists remains of prehistoric pile dwellings in the shallow water of Lake Biel, and the site is one piece of the World Heritage property for pile dwellings around the Alps. The lake, long and narrow, lies at the foot of the Jura mountains, and its shores have been inhabited for thousands of years.
Read the complete Vingelz / Hafen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Vingelz / Hafen comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Strandboden.
3. Strandboden
Erlach sits at the south-western tip of Lake Biel, a little Bernese town of one steep street climbing to a castle, with vineyards on the slope behind and reed beds and beaches along the shore below. The flat ground by the water, the Strandboden, is where archaeologists have found traces of prehistoric lakeside villages, part of the network of pile dwelling sites around the Alps inscribed by UNESCO in 2011. Five or six thousand years ago farmers built their houses here on posts at the water's edge, and the waterlogged mud preserved timbers, tools, seeds and even textiles in astonishing detail.
Read the complete Strandboden write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Strandboden. Next is back through Vingelz / Hafen.
4. back through Vingelz / Hafen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vingelz / Hafen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Vingelz / Hafen, late in the day. Next is Lobsigensee.
5. Lobsigensee
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lobsigensee write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Lobsigensee. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Lobsigensee to Vingelz / Hafen
Lobsigensee → Vingelz / Hafen is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vingelz / Hafen to Strandboden
Vingelz / Hafen → Strandboden is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Strandboden to back through Vingelz / Hafen
Strandboden → back through Vingelz / Hafen is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vingelz / Hafen to Lobsigensee
back through Vingelz / Hafen → Lobsigensee is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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